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Subject(s)

• City dwellers—Germany—Mortality [Browse]
• City dwellers—Great Britain—Mortality [Browse]
• Mortality—Germany—History—19th century [Browse]
• City and town life—Health aspects—Germany [Browse]
• Mortality—Great Britain—History—19th century [Browse]
• City and town life—Health aspects—Great Britain [Browse]
• Urban health—Great Britain—History—19th century [Browse]
• Urban health—Germany—History—19th century [Browse]

Series

• Liverpool studies in European population ; 5. [More in this series]
• Liverpool studies in European population ; 5 [More in this series]

Summary note

"Urban Mortality Change in England and Germany, 1870-1913 is an important comparative historical study of mortality which offers an impressive synthesis of complex data and issues concerning rapid urbanisation and social conditions." "This new study will be valuable to British and German historians and those concerned with economic history, social history, demographic history and the history of medicine and it will be a pivotal reference work for those seeking to apply demographic expertise to the understanding of changing disease patterns."--BOOK JACKET.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-286) and index.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• I. Introduction
• 1. Introductory remarks
• 2. Approach, Methods and Aims
• 3. Sources
• 4. Conclusion to Part I
• II. Urban Mortality Change
• 5. Setting
• 6. Urban Mortality in England and Germany, 1870-1910
• 7. Conclusion to Part II
• III. Determinants of Urban Mortality Change
• 8. Introduction to Part III
• 9. Economic Growth and Mortality Change
• 10. Housing Conditions and Mortality Change
• 11. Improving the Environment: The Impact of Sanitary Reforms on the People's Health
• 12. Medicine and the City
• IV. Conclusion
• 13. Summary and concluding remaks
• Appendix 1. Classification of Diseases in Germany
• Appendix 2. Sources of Data on Age- and Sex-Specific Mortality in Germany
• Appendix 3. Annual Causes of Death in England and Wales, 1856-1910
• Appendix 4. Registration District Number and Boundary Changes in the English Sample of Towns
• Appendix 5. Population in the Selected Registration Districts of England and Wales, 1871-1880 and 1901-1910
• Appendix 6. Age- and Sex-Specific Disease Panorama in German Towns, in Prussia, in English Towns and in England and Wales
• Appendix 7. Mortality Profile and Disease Panorama in the Largest Towns in England and Wales and in Germany
• Appendix 8. Economic Classification of the Largest English Cities and Registration Districts According to Greenhow and Welton
• Appendix 9. Expansion of Centralized Water Supply and Sewerage Systems in the Ten Largest German and English Towns.

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ISBN

• 0853238421
• 0853238529 (pbk)

OCLC

42421252

RCP

H - S

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